Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-30
DECORATION DAY.

ances in This City To-Day Tht
 Flowers Needed to Decorate tn,
 Graves of the Dead Soldiers Tn.
 Decoration of the Graves-The After
 noon Parade TO-Day-MemOrIal Ser
 vices at St. Bernard Cemetery-Th,
 Memorial Exercises in Orange, Yves
 Haven and Woodbridge Yesterday.
 Grand Army men were hoping yesterday that to-day would be fair, but they saiG whether it rains or shines their comrade would not be forgotten. The ifferent Gran Army organization details will form on tn Green and leave at ten o'clock for the ceme teries, and as the fire alarm bells strik eleven the ceremony of decorating the grave will begin simultaneously in the differen cemeteries. Prof. Thomson on the Trinit chimes will render programme while th graves of the dead heroes are being deco rated. The programme to be rendered ol the Trinity chimes to-day is as follows:
 America.
 Nearer my God to thee
 Shall we Meet beyond the River
 Sweet Bye and Bye.
 We shall Meet beyond the River.
 Seymour. (Hymn.)
 The Vacant Chair.
 Home, Sweet Home.
 
 line will form on the Green and at p. m will march to St. Bernard cemetery. Int line of march will be as follows: Out of tht south end of the Green to Chapel, to Church to Csngress avenue, to Howard avenue, tc Columbus avenue, to Hedge street, to the cemetery. There will be appropriate exer cises at the cemetery which will be presided over by ex-Senator Plunkett
 The committee is sadly in need of flowers and appeal to the public to be liberal in their donations and to send them early this morning to the State House.
 TRINITY M E. CHURCH CROWDED.
 Over two hundred members of Admiral Foote post No. F, J. N. Coe commander, and Nathan Hale camp, Sons of Veterans, both in full uniform, attended divine service at Trinity M. E. church yesterday morning. The beautiful new silk post flags appeared for the first time in public. They were much admired and on reaching the church the flags were placed on either side of the preachers g platform, the stars and stripes being at the right and the elegant blue flag on the left.
 After the opening exercises, which were very appropriate to the occasion, the pastor, Rev. Dr. Reed, addressed a few words of welcome to the veterans and expressing the great satisfaction it had always afforded him to preach to posts of the Grand Army of the which he had done many times in the past, and also expressing his admiration for their deeds of valor on many 8 field of battle.
 Dr. Reed selected for his text Esther, ], ,26, 27, 29. The discourse was exceeding y appropriate to the occasion and was filled V ith high and noble thoughts. After re- ;erring to the Memorial day observed by the Jews and it's establishment by royal decree, he speaker passed to notice the present Memorial day observed in this country, which had become fixed fact by the laws ,f the land and which would no doubt con- inue to be observed through coming genera ions.
 The struggle of the Union arms at the ailures and defeats which followed pre- eding the proclamation of emancipation were strikingly portrayed, and in his the eloquent speaker saw only the hand # God leading the nation up to @ continued nd prosperous union, with slavery abolished nd the sentiment of Webster, "Liberty and lnion. Now and forever one and insepar- ble," becoming fixed and undying fact. The work of the women in attending upon he sick and dying in camp and in field, the ,reat efficiency of the sanitary and Christian commissions and the thrilling incidents con lected with them were graphically DOT rayed.
 The discourse throughout was one that ave'great satisfaction to the Grand Army vet rans, and many were the expressions of and approval made by them n their return to their post hall.
 HE GRAND RALLY AT THE HYPERION LAST
 NIGHT. An audience which completely packed the Hyperion Theater was present last evening 3 listen to the memorial services held under he auspices of the G. A. R. The singing y cho1us of 300 boys led by the choir of t. John street M. E. church, with Prof. 'enjamin Jepson as director, was not the east pleasing feature of the exercises. After he singing of ''FIag of the Free" MT. ym. Fl. Pierpont, chairman of the Memor- al day committee, introduced the Rev. J. l. Foster, past grand chaplain of U. S., the peaker of the evening, whose address was owerful and masterly effort, delivered with force and emphasis which held his audience ompletely spell-bound for over an hour. elow are substantially the main points of he address. God has not bestowed on any other nation uch blessings as on ours. Twentytwo ears has not lessened our love pr the principles for which re fought, and it is because of our remem- rance of these principles we gather once year to lay flowers on the graves of our de- arted comrades. It is to the valor of Union rms we owe our existence as a nation to- ay. In preserving the structure our fathers cared we did much more. Many attempts ad been made before to establish govern lent, but had failed. The principles of l and democracy have ever been pposed. The failure of every attempt to l stablish free government had been taken ! 5 fact of the impossibility of doing so. ut now it has been tested for more than ! undred years and the test has been bloody | ne We have been torn by internal ! issensions. Our fathers, brothers and | usbands have marched out to stand by the ] rinciple that monarchy was failure and we ] ere governed by divine rule. The demon | ration of the power of democracy was not l le sole object of the war. Indeed, of far | reater value was working out the mission l cd had in view of reserYing for us the es- l Iblishment of the truth of individual iber- l r. Man is to the government what sun is to | le universe-the center and source of indi | idual liberty. Magma charta has been called | le keystone of liberty. But it was for the | terests only of those who framed it and so | as limited. This, though, was step in | lvance. Liberty is the natural right of a an solely because he is 8 man. Dur | g the last twelve years you | ay have heard fears expressed
 revolution in our government, especially | lring our last election. A revolution ,uld not be justified. There are no rights hich we could get by revolution which
  institution which is amended by the peo- e, and if it is opposed we will fight it's op- ,sers Austria, France and all the Europe powers are paying more and more atten- on to the popular voice; thus have we led e nations I would rather be man and ,ssess this good right arm than an angel ith wings. The flowers which we will rew tomorrow speak not only of victory strong over the weak, but also of democ- cy over monarchy. It was not war that erthrew the Roman empire, but vice. As rely as vice and iniquity destroy individual en, so surely will it destroy 8 nation. 0 man has any right to sit down in the en- yment of any blessing who is not willing meet the difficulties which go with it. No an has any right to enjoy rights of citizen lip who is not willing to meet dutiesaofa a citi- n. While the grass shall grow, while the ountains shall rear their summits heaven ard, never shall we cease to remember our ceased comrades. By means of Memorial y we have standing army of 50,000, 900, l cause Memorial day builds our army. The 'Ys that are coming after us are going to ep where we step. After an earnest hope r the proper observance of the y the speaker closed with 8 glowing tribute the national flag.
 THE EXERCISES IN ORANGE YESTERDAY. Memorial exercises were held in Orange sterday. Rev. Mir. Hunt preached an ex- Tent memorial sermon in the morning. l ] .E-